The Collation

Lingua Latina Medica Accessabilis Facta, vel Febrem Habeo et Præscriptio Sola Campanæ Bovinæ Plus Est or Medical Latin Made Accessible, or I Have a Fever and the Only Prescription is More (of) Cow Bell. A look into John Ward’s Latin list, a glossary of the medical Latin terms used by the 17th century vicar in his diaries.

The RaceB4Race Mentorship Network reads The Other Faces of Arthur: Chivalric Whiteness in the Global North Atlantic

Senior Photography Associate William Davis shares his five favorite collection items in our new series: Folger Faves.

The RaceB4Race Mentorship Network reads Shakespeare in the ‘Post’Colonies: Legacies, Cultures, and Social Justice

Take a look at our top five Collation posts from 2025. Thanks for a great year!

Seventeenth century resonances in a twentieth century postcard sent from Jamaica.

“Do not seek pleasure in music and singing” and other advice for widows from an early 17th-century manuscript.

An examination of marginalia in the Folger’s 1593 The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia

What does the language of Shakespeare have in common with the Gullah-Geechee language?

Looking at enslaved Black workers and the 1588 Spanish Armada’s afterlives in a 17th-century English miscellany

Keep up with what the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network is reading this year!

Have you ever noticed a decorated paper on a volume in our collection and wondered how it was made?